We won't discover, now, the relevance and influence of the jazz in the different musical genres of this century that now finishes, but it suits to remember certain names and movies that had helped to integrate it in the film music world, not only as an alternative to the Nineteen-Century symphonic style but as an approach form between the public and the film creation. This way, authors of more classic formation, as Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann or Elmer Bernstein, joins with other coming from the purest jazz, as Duke Ellington and Quincy Jones, offering a stupendous mixture of styles and perspectives, more integrated thanks to the work, not only interpretive but unifiyng, of the composer and trumpet player Terence Blanchard, which has gathered to a magnificent group of interpreters through those the music flows with easiness and rotundity, in an innate way, giving a different dimension to so listened themes as Chinatown (1974) or The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). A splendid record. M.A.F.

Alex North: A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) - 7:55
Jerry Goldsmith: Chinatown (1974) - 8:23
André Previn: The Subterraneans (1960) - 9:08
Duke Ellington: Anatomy of a Murder (1959) - 8:25
Quincy Jones: The Pawnbroker (1965) - 7:03
Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver (1975) - 7:13
Duke Ellington: Degas' Racing World (1968) - 7:57
Elmer Bernstein: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - 4:14
Terence Blanchard: Clockers (1995) - 8:01
Arrangements: Terence Blanchard
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